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Portland school board bans climate change-denying materials

52 pointsby mactitanalmost 9 years ago

10 comments

kevinpetalmost 9 years ago
The science is pretty clear on co2 causing global warming.<p>The economics of the urgency and advisability of any particular intervention are less clear.<p>The moral assumptions underlying &quot;climate justice&quot; are pretty unclear to me and don&#x27;t seem to be an appropriate area for a government agency to be legislating what they deem the truth to be.<p>Be careful you don&#x27;t get too happy when the government compels a point of view you happen to agree with, because once you hand over decisions about truth to a political body, it&#x27;s hard to claw it back.
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elgabogringoalmost 9 years ago
&quot;In board testimony, Bigelow said PPS’ science textbooks are littered with words like might, may and could when talking about climate change.&quot;<p>Skepticism in science? Unacceptable!
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mrmondoalmost 9 years ago
As someone not from the states I was genuinely surprised to see that non-science was potentially preached in schools for such well proven topics such as this. For genuinely debatable scientific theories sure I understand but this was a bit of a jarring realisation.
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jamiesonbeckeralmost 9 years ago
Immediately after the school board meeting, residents were invited to a CO2-free book burning and BBQ.
chipperyman573almost 9 years ago
This purchase was <i>unanimously approved</i> by the school board. How do we let people like that get voted on to something so important?
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kstrauseralmost 9 years ago
Don&#x27;t... read the comments. Just don&#x27;t.
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Turing_Machinealmost 9 years ago
I note that the Portland school library system offers both <i>Mein Kampf</i> and <i>The Communist Manifesto</i>. Exposing fragile young minds to those is just fine, apparently.<p>(I searched at the Roosevelt Library, if anyone wants to check)
ta0967almost 9 years ago
<i>403 - This request is blocked by Admin Tools. Please change this message in the component&#x27;s options.</i><p>same when going to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;portlandtribune.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;portlandtribune.com&#x2F;</a><p>what&#x27;s up?
user_0001almost 9 years ago
lol, only in the US would this be a big deal.
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Harry101almost 9 years ago
So many people are going to feel stupid, and just as many will say they knew all along there was nothing to it.